Religion

  • know Jesus's two-fold Law of Love: Love God and love others as one's self
  • Recognize signs of God's love in their life and in the world around us
  • Know that family and friends are a way of knowing God's Love
  • know that we are all holy people
  • know that there are good actions and bad actions
  • know that the holy spirit helps us to make good choices to follow Jesus
  • Distinguish between sin, temptation, and mistakes
  • respect all stages of human life which is created in God's image
  • Relate the care of all living things to God's care
  • Understand that the readings from mass come from the Word of God
  • Nativity (Luke 2:1-20) and Visit of the Magi (Matt 2:1-12)
  • Be familiar with the messages from the Scripture
    • Jesus' hidden life at Nazereth (Luke 2: 40) and Finding in the Temple (Luke 2:41-52)
    • Gospel stories and parables that illustrate the goodness and love shown by Jesus
    • Account of the Last Supper
    • Death and Resurrection of Jesus
    • Multiplication of Loaves and fishes
    • The good shepherd, story of Zacchaeus, Jesus is still with us
    • Baptism accounts in Acts
  • understand that after Adam and Eve were tempted by the devil, they sinned against God, bringing sin into the world
  • understand that the whole human race was affected by the sin of Adam and Eve
  • Be familiar with and experience individual reception of the Sacrament of Penance
  • Experience communal celebration of the Sacrament of Penance
  • Describe something of the significance of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter and Pentecost through verbal and/or artistic forms of creative expression
  • Identify certain liturgical objects such as altar, tabernacle, crucifix, Baptismal font, holy water font, stations of the cross, confessional/reconciliation room, stole, mass vestments
  • recognize signs of God's love in their life and in the world around us
  • understand that we gather as a family at Mass to celebrate our Lord's death and resurrection
  • Realize that every time we receive Jesus in Holy Communion we receive graces to become more like Christ
  • know that family and friends are a way of knowing God's love
  • Know that we are all holy people
  • know that we have a tendency to weakness because of original sin
  • understand a simple version of the ten commandments
  • know that there are good actions and bad actions
  • be aware of the need to forgive and/or ask for forgiveness
  • know that the Holy Spirit helps us to make good choices as we follow Jesus
  • Distinguish between sin, temptation and mistake
  • respect all stages of human life which is created in God's image
  • relate the care of all living things to God's care